Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-03-31
BLAINE VS.. SHERMAN AND SHEER
MAN vs.. BLAINE.


Mr.. BLAINE is now making his way
through the West to repair the damage
of Brother SHERMAN's raid through the
South. There is some fine work being
done, and il is not devoid of amusement
for the Democrats. BLAINE made what
his admirers called a triumphal march
through Pennsylvania last year and got
himself talked about in the papers a good
deal. As soon as SHERMAN gets through
his busy work in Congress he makes n
raid through the South, place where
Northern Republican politicians have
never before entered and which MIR.
BLAINE never dreamed of tackling him.
self nor had the least thought that so
rabid a fire-eater as SHERMAN has
been would have the gall to cross
Mason and Dixon line to seek
support. BLAINE in his Portland speech,
the day after his defeat for the Presidency
placed himself on record as man Of too
narrow views to be anything more then
sectional candidate. His .slanderous and
contemplate expressions about the South
ern people, if not retracted would bar him
from any support from them. Mr.. BLAINE
then expected to fight through another
campaign on the bloody shirt issue. But
this issue has been ridden till it has fallen
dead in the traces. Mr.. BLAINE doesn't
seem to know it; or if be does he has be-
come so attached to it that he can't give 1t
up and clings to it saying: Where thou
gOest will 90; and where thou diest there
will die. Here is where SHER-
MAN has gotten the advantage
of BLAINE. He rode the
bloody shirt issue almost as hard as Mr..
BLAINE. Only last fall he was saying all
manner of bitter and baSeleSs things about
the Southern people. Buthe has perceiv-
ed that the old horse was ridden to death
and has Jumped of, turned round the col
ner, left the dead animal to Brother
BLAINE and started South talking Is if he
never heard of such thing as the bloody
shirt issue.
This shrewdness on the part of Mr..
SHERMAN has greatly increased his popu-
larity among Southern and Western Re
publicanS. Sections in the West that were
Mr.. BLAINE's strongholds have undergone
great change of sentiment. The st. Louis
Globe Democrat declares that the Repub-
lican party certainly cannot carry
the election of 1883 if it renOminates
the candidate of 1Ssi. The Mil
waukee Sentinel, in Wisconsin, the Bur-
lington HaTkeye, keokuk Gate CITY and
Council Bluffs NORpdrisi, in Iowa, make
earnest protests against the folly of nomi-
dating Mr.. BLAINE next year. The latter
paper terSely observes: 1T looks rs though
the minority OF the American people, and
we are of the number, trust and admire
Mr.. BLAINE, and that the majority of the
American people distrust him, and will
not vote for him"
This is why JAMES has packed his grip
sack and started West so suddenly. This
is why he is looking dagSers at JOHN. I'm
| less he can stem the tide he is afraid that
JIMMY BLAINE and the Presidential NOM
nation will have to say good bye forever.
And this is why the Republicans who want
to .'yindicate" BLAINE are thinking less
of JOHN SHERMAN'S patriotism than for
meGly. There is fun ahead in the Repub-
lican camp. Prepare to enjoy it.
As to the Democrats, they know JOHN
SHERMAN OF old. lie is talking words
sweet as honey now and is saying that the
people of the South are patriotic and pros
porous; that the colored people are well
treated and all that sort of thing. But
the Democrats remember his unjust and
hitter attacks rs well rs they do Mr..
BLAINE'S. A leopard cannot change his
spots in day, nor in two days.